Behind the scenes: How India's longest rail tunnel in Kashmir was built

Behind the scenes: How India's longest rail tunnel in Kashmir was built

4 Jul, 2013

Reshmi R Dasgupta, ET Bureau

The 11-km-long tunnel across the treacherous Pir Panjal mountain range on the Banihal-Qazigund railway line in Jammu and Kashmir, is the longest such transportation passage in India and second longest in Asia.

But, Kashmir's new railway is not merely an engineering feat, but a political, economic and diplomatic one too. We take a look at how the railway men weathered every obstacle & went beyond the call of duty to construct the line and the tunnel: